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Game 1 2007 World Series 10/24/07
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 09:37 AM
I hope these guys are studying hard... because we're going to burn the rockies down.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 10:13 AM
Crapshoot my ass...
Win tonight with the Best Pitcher on the planet and the offense that scores at least 4 runs in every home postseason game save 1 since 2003.
Win tomorrow with the Vet vs. Young Gun part 2
Then crush Josh Fogg and Aaron Cook.
Win it.Win it.Win it.
Win tonight with the Best Pitcher on the planet and the offense that scores at least 4 runs in every home postseason game save 1 since 2003.
Win tomorrow with the Vet vs. Young Gun part 2
Then crush Josh Fogg and Aaron Cook.
Win it.Win it.Win it.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 10:21 AM
Winning time is NOW! I respect the Rockies and a team that wins 21 out of 22 isn't chopped liver. But c'mon we are talking about NL competition so we should handle them.
So Win. NOW!
So Win. NOW!
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 10:34 AM
10/24/07-- World Series Game 1: Bending Time and Space
It’s time for Jose Melendez’s KEYS TO THE GAME.
1. Clink. The first cube of ice hits the bottom of the glass.
Clonk. The second cube ricochets off the first and settles into an uneasy tower of frozen water, braced only by the invisible arc of silicon fused solid.
Tunk…tunk…tunk… The Scotch pours over the ice in rhythmic spurts, one then two fingers deep
Tunk… tunk… Better make it three.
They call alcohol liquid courage for a reason. Not so much because it increases one’s bravery, but because it eases one’s fear, and fear is the enemy of performance. The stakes are high now, frighteningly high, and there is little choice but to deliver. Three years ago, Jose did this without the sweet kiss of alcohol, his skin ravaged by infection and antibiotics the only thing standing between him and disaster. He worked clean in 2004, having to rely on the courage in his soul, rather than the courage in the glass to get him through four games of World Series tension.
Not this year. This year he is healthy. This year he is strong. The first sip burns, burns as it always does, burns with anticipation, burns with exhilaration. The second is easier, so much easier. And then come the words.
Jose is jealous. He is wildly, passionately jealous of Josh Beckett, of St. Josh a Beckett. Beckett will walk on to the Fenway mound at just a bit passed 8:30 this evening calm as can be yet with a frightening intensity. His emotions cooled, not by the cracked ice in a glass entwining with intoxicating liquors, but by the ice in his heart, in his arteries in his veins, intoxicated by the ecstasy of 37,000 madmen who want nothing save to bask in his brilliance.
Josh Beckett, on this good evening, is who Jose wants to be. He is who you want to be as well—Confident, assured and completely and utterly in control of his destiny. There are stories in fiction, in comics, in movies of men who can control molecules, who can shape the very reality around them to conform to their needs and their demands. Those men are fictional but their power is not.
Perhaps it does not take the comical form of an old tire morphing into an ice cream cone, but the power is real. With each pitch Josh Beckett can stop time; he can bend space. You know it is possible because you have seen it before. You saw it in 1999, when a sore and broken Pedro Martinez defied the cruel truth of a devastated shoulder, to make his own reality. You saw it in 2004, when a hobbled Curt Euro demanded that his physical limitations yield to his indomitable will. And you will see it tonight. No, Josh Beckett will not have to overcome a fraying shoulder or an ankle torn asunder, but he will defy reality. He will defy that most basic law of the universe that says simply, “no one can be that good.”
But he is. He is that good.
And for today, and perhaps only today, so is Jose, so are you, so are we. Jose sets down the glass and lets the ice melt slowly in its crystal cage, until the amber scotch grows gradually warmer, even as Jose’s gaze grows gradually colder.
And the words continue to come. They come quickly like a fastball; sentences veer off into new ideas like a curve, and all fear drops out of sight like a splitter to the dirt.
Jose does not need liquid courage, not tonight. He has Josh Beckett on the mound, and that is courage enough for anyone.
2. From time to time, Jose likes to inject a bit of political commentary into his KEYS, to use the bully pulpit of his little corner of the Web to advocate for causes near and dear to America’s powerful Japanese-German-Jewish-Unitarian lobby. This is not one of those times.
That said, Jose does feel that it is an imperative for him to take a few moments on this historic occasion to comment on the war. He does this with nothing but the deepest respect and gratitude for our fighting men and women, but duty calls and Jose must respond.
It has become the tritest of jokes to say “If we don’t <insert stupid/pointless/obscene activity> the terrorist have won.” Jose will not dishonor himself by using that line. He will however, point out that if you put an “I” before “Rockies” you get the Irockies, or in apple speak iRockies.
Sun Tzu urged us to know our enemy, and thus it is incumbent upon us to understand the nature of this adversary, these iRockies on the baseball field and understand how they differ from the Iraqis in the desert.
• Everyone knows exactly why we’re playing the iRockies. They won the National League, we have to play them; it’s really straightforward. By contrast, it is not totally clear why we had to go to war with the Iraqis. If we applied the same logic we used in the war with the World Series. We would be getting ready to go play the Washington Nationals, because they seem like a more desirable opponent, and as we speak, Theo Epstein would be making speeches connecting the Nationals to Colorado’s 2-1 series win over Boston this summer, and discussing how Dmitri Young could not be allowed to threaten our championship ambitions.
• We know that the iRockies, the whole of the iRockies are our opponents. No one on that team is trying to help us, there are no iRocky factions trying to undermine other parts of the team. The pitchers aren’t trying to seize control over the batters or face versa. This is helpful.
• The iRockies definitely want us there. They want us to come to Colorado and bring economic prosperity and liberation from watching the pathetic Denver Broncos. The Iraqis? Not as clear.
• Unlike the Iraqis, people close to the iRockies don’t seem to have cared about their situation at all until recently. If, before the war, you asked any Iraqi out of distance of the secret police, you can bet he had an opinion about how his country was governed. If you asked an iRocky fan about the management of the iRockies last April, he probably didn’t have a clue.
• Jose will bet that almost every single person in Baghdad can name, three, ten even twenty five Iraqis. Do you think most people in Denver can name three iRockies?
• The map to victory against the iRockies is clear—score more runs. Fighting against Iraqi insurgents, not so much. Also, regardless of whether a surge helps against the Iraqis, we definitely cannot add more players in the battle against the iRockies.
Coming up tomorrow: How fighting the Taliban is like pitching to Todd Helton. (Note: Beards are involved.) Jose would add that he really doesn’t like the Taliban. He thinks it is terrible that they made all of the women cover themselves with former Sox pitcher and excellent bowler John Burkett. They weren’t even allowed to go outside without a Burkett on.
For KEY 3, more on the Rockies, visit http://keystothegame.blogspot.com/
It’s time for Jose Melendez’s KEYS TO THE GAME.
1. Clink. The first cube of ice hits the bottom of the glass.
Clonk. The second cube ricochets off the first and settles into an uneasy tower of frozen water, braced only by the invisible arc of silicon fused solid.
Tunk…tunk…tunk… The Scotch pours over the ice in rhythmic spurts, one then two fingers deep
Tunk… tunk… Better make it three.
They call alcohol liquid courage for a reason. Not so much because it increases one’s bravery, but because it eases one’s fear, and fear is the enemy of performance. The stakes are high now, frighteningly high, and there is little choice but to deliver. Three years ago, Jose did this without the sweet kiss of alcohol, his skin ravaged by infection and antibiotics the only thing standing between him and disaster. He worked clean in 2004, having to rely on the courage in his soul, rather than the courage in the glass to get him through four games of World Series tension.
Not this year. This year he is healthy. This year he is strong. The first sip burns, burns as it always does, burns with anticipation, burns with exhilaration. The second is easier, so much easier. And then come the words.
Jose is jealous. He is wildly, passionately jealous of Josh Beckett, of St. Josh a Beckett. Beckett will walk on to the Fenway mound at just a bit passed 8:30 this evening calm as can be yet with a frightening intensity. His emotions cooled, not by the cracked ice in a glass entwining with intoxicating liquors, but by the ice in his heart, in his arteries in his veins, intoxicated by the ecstasy of 37,000 madmen who want nothing save to bask in his brilliance.
Josh Beckett, on this good evening, is who Jose wants to be. He is who you want to be as well—Confident, assured and completely and utterly in control of his destiny. There are stories in fiction, in comics, in movies of men who can control molecules, who can shape the very reality around them to conform to their needs and their demands. Those men are fictional but their power is not.
Perhaps it does not take the comical form of an old tire morphing into an ice cream cone, but the power is real. With each pitch Josh Beckett can stop time; he can bend space. You know it is possible because you have seen it before. You saw it in 1999, when a sore and broken Pedro Martinez defied the cruel truth of a devastated shoulder, to make his own reality. You saw it in 2004, when a hobbled Curt Euro demanded that his physical limitations yield to his indomitable will. And you will see it tonight. No, Josh Beckett will not have to overcome a fraying shoulder or an ankle torn asunder, but he will defy reality. He will defy that most basic law of the universe that says simply, “no one can be that good.”
But he is. He is that good.
And for today, and perhaps only today, so is Jose, so are you, so are we. Jose sets down the glass and lets the ice melt slowly in its crystal cage, until the amber scotch grows gradually warmer, even as Jose’s gaze grows gradually colder.
And the words continue to come. They come quickly like a fastball; sentences veer off into new ideas like a curve, and all fear drops out of sight like a splitter to the dirt.
Jose does not need liquid courage, not tonight. He has Josh Beckett on the mound, and that is courage enough for anyone.
2. From time to time, Jose likes to inject a bit of political commentary into his KEYS, to use the bully pulpit of his little corner of the Web to advocate for causes near and dear to America’s powerful Japanese-German-Jewish-Unitarian lobby. This is not one of those times.
That said, Jose does feel that it is an imperative for him to take a few moments on this historic occasion to comment on the war. He does this with nothing but the deepest respect and gratitude for our fighting men and women, but duty calls and Jose must respond.
It has become the tritest of jokes to say “If we don’t <insert stupid/pointless/obscene activity> the terrorist have won.” Jose will not dishonor himself by using that line. He will however, point out that if you put an “I” before “Rockies” you get the Irockies, or in apple speak iRockies.
Sun Tzu urged us to know our enemy, and thus it is incumbent upon us to understand the nature of this adversary, these iRockies on the baseball field and understand how they differ from the Iraqis in the desert.
• Everyone knows exactly why we’re playing the iRockies. They won the National League, we have to play them; it’s really straightforward. By contrast, it is not totally clear why we had to go to war with the Iraqis. If we applied the same logic we used in the war with the World Series. We would be getting ready to go play the Washington Nationals, because they seem like a more desirable opponent, and as we speak, Theo Epstein would be making speeches connecting the Nationals to Colorado’s 2-1 series win over Boston this summer, and discussing how Dmitri Young could not be allowed to threaten our championship ambitions.
• We know that the iRockies, the whole of the iRockies are our opponents. No one on that team is trying to help us, there are no iRocky factions trying to undermine other parts of the team. The pitchers aren’t trying to seize control over the batters or face versa. This is helpful.
• The iRockies definitely want us there. They want us to come to Colorado and bring economic prosperity and liberation from watching the pathetic Denver Broncos. The Iraqis? Not as clear.
• Unlike the Iraqis, people close to the iRockies don’t seem to have cared about their situation at all until recently. If, before the war, you asked any Iraqi out of distance of the secret police, you can bet he had an opinion about how his country was governed. If you asked an iRocky fan about the management of the iRockies last April, he probably didn’t have a clue.
• Jose will bet that almost every single person in Baghdad can name, three, ten even twenty five Iraqis. Do you think most people in Denver can name three iRockies?
• The map to victory against the iRockies is clear—score more runs. Fighting against Iraqi insurgents, not so much. Also, regardless of whether a surge helps against the Iraqis, we definitely cannot add more players in the battle against the iRockies.
Coming up tomorrow: How fighting the Taliban is like pitching to Todd Helton. (Note: Beards are involved.) Jose would add that he really doesn’t like the Taliban. He thinks it is terrible that they made all of the women cover themselves with former Sox pitcher and excellent bowler John Burkett. They weren’t even allowed to go outside without a Burkett on.
For KEY 3, more on the Rockies, visit http://keystothegame.blogspot.com/
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 10:40 AM
Great Keys, Jose.
Four more wins.
Starting today.
Four more wins.
Starting today.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 10:45 AM
Fantastic keys, well done sir.Coming up tomorrow: How fighting the Taliban is like pitching to Todd Helton. (Note: Beards are involved.) Jose would add that he really doesn’t like the Taliban. He thinks it is terrible that they made all of the women cover themselves with former Sox pitcher and excellent bowler John Burkett. They weren’t even allowed to go outside without a Burkett on.
For KEY 3, more on the Rockies, visit http://keystothegame.blogspot.com/
In closing, win the game. . . .
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 10:45 AM
Crush the Rockies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 10:59 AM
To paraphrase Flo:
"We're going to kick their ass, drink their beer and rape their bitches"
"We're going to kick their ass, drink their beer and rape their bitches"
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 11:09 AM
Classic keys, as expected!
Do the iRockies's fans have their version of Cleveland's 'Watt', starting some lame game thread up in the oxygen deprived rockies? A quick google search tells me not.
Jose is our uber-talented and twisted one in a million.
Let's do this thang....
Do the iRockies's fans have their version of Cleveland's 'Watt', starting some lame game thread up in the oxygen deprived rockies? A quick google search tells me not.
Jose is our uber-talented and twisted one in a million.
Let's do this thang....
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 12:33 PM
Win it so that I can laugh at the assholes who are going to get fired for writing a piece of shit ticketing system.
Win it and they will say "I got fired from my job and we didn't even win a single game!"
Win!
Win it and they will say "I got fired from my job and we didn't even win a single game!"
Win!
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 12:56 PM
Win it for G38--to bring him back in 08, or to go out in style in 07!
Either way, we'll love you forever. Unless you suck in this series, of course.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 12:59 PM
On Friday night, I had a terrible nightmare in which the Sox lost game 6 and were eliminated. Waking up on Saturday morning to realize that it wasn't real and the game hadn't actually happened yet was one of the most wonderful feelings I can recall. And then they won.
Well, I had almost the identical dream last night, and the identical experience waking up this morning. This bodes well.
Win.
Well, I had almost the identical dream last night, and the identical experience waking up this morning. This bodes well.
Win.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 01:04 PM
Oh boy, only two more hours to kill before I head to Fenway for the pre-game shenanigans. These are the longest days ever.
Just win, fellas.
Just win, fellas.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 01:13 PM
The second World Series appearance for the Red Sox in 4 years. You know what that means we need?
BATS! Bring on the bats.
BATS! Bring on the bats.
Edited by ookami7m, 24 October 2007 - 01:14 PM.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 01:35 PM
Win it ... So the Colorado Rockies can't touch the Sox 8 straight post-season win streak
Win it ... Cuz I still remember '86 and '03
Win it ... For yourselves
Win it ... For the Nation
Win it ... To piss in the Yankees face
Win it ... To piss off the REST of the Nation
Win it ... For me
Win it ... For them
Win it ... For ... aw hell, just #$%$in win it!
Win it ... Cuz I still remember '86 and '03
Win it ... For yourselves
Win it ... For the Nation
Win it ... To piss in the Yankees face
Win it ... To piss off the REST of the Nation
Win it ... For me
Win it ... For them
Win it ... For ... aw hell, just #$%$in win it!
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 02:15 PM
Vacationing here in Hawaii for the last week, I am still shocked how many Hawaiian Sox fans I have run into: from the retired servicemen working at the Arizona Memorial to random people hiking Mount Diamondhead and other places.
Anyway, Go get em Josh and continue bolster your resume as one of the best post season pitchers in the history of the game. Start this off right and WIN!!!!!!
Anyway, Go get em Josh and continue bolster your resume as one of the best post season pitchers in the history of the game. Start this off right and WIN!!!!!!
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 02:46 PM
They always win when I wear the green hat!
Edited by bellyofthebeast, 24 October 2007 - 03:12 PM.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 02:56 PM
Do the iRockies's fans have their version of Cleveland's 'Watt', starting some lame game thread up in the oxygen deprived rockies? A quick google search tells me not.
Watt is playing golf now. This is better.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:04 PM
Looking forward to seeing Beckett dominate again. It will be great to see #8 throw out the first pitch as well.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:06 PM
Weather radar is clear in all directions at the moment
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:12 PM
Days like today are why 2004 was so important. I no longer worry about dying without having seen the Sox win it all at least once. I've seen it, I bought the DVD and it'll live forever. Here they are in another World Series, and I'm going to enjoy watching it a lot more than I did in 2004. If the Rockies keep rolling and win, I'll be disappointed but not devastated. For the next week, I'm just going to enjoy watching my favorite team play another really good team for the championship of Major League Baseball. I'll cheer every clutch hit, defensive gem and 1-2-3 inning the Sox achieve. But I won't feel a single pang of fear every time someone makes an error, or the bullpen puts the tying run on first base with a four pitch walk.
The Red Sox won it all in 2004, and no matter what happens over the next seven games the 2007 Red Sox have had a great season full of terrific moments. The collective psyche of the nation no longer requires that they win.
It would just be really, really great if they do.
The Red Sox won it all in 2004, and no matter what happens over the next seven games the 2007 Red Sox have had a great season full of terrific moments. The collective psyche of the nation no longer requires that they win.
It would just be really, really great if they do.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:26 PM
Me, too.Days like today are why 2004 was so important. I no longer worry about dying without having seen the Sox win it all at least once. I've seen it, I bought the DVD and it'll live forever. Here they are in another World Series, and I'm going to enjoy watching it a lot more than I did in 2004. If the Rockies keep rolling and win, I'll be disappointed but not devastated. For the next week, I'm just going to enjoy watching my favorite team play another really good team for the championship of Major League Baseball. I'll cheer every clutch hit, defensive gem and 1-2-3 inning the Sox achieve. But I won't feel a single pang of fear every time someone makes an error, or the bullpen puts the tying run on first base with a four pitch walk.
The Red Sox won it all in 2004, and no matter what happens over the next seven games the 2007 Red Sox have had a great season full of terrific moments. The collective psyche of the nation no longer requires that they win.
It would just be really, really great if they do.
Lovely not to be all tied up in knots.
Still, boys, git 'er done, okay?
The obligatory: win
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:31 PM
Joe McDonald (Projo Blog), when you post the lineups, try to make sure there are 9 guys in each lineup.
Geez.
Geez.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:32 PM
The lineups are out for Game 1 of the World Series...
Red Sox
1. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
2. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Manny Ramirez, LF
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. Jason Varitek, C
7. J.D. Drew, RF
8. Julio Lugo, SS
9. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
SP - Josh Beckett
Rockies
1. Willy Taveras, CF
2. Kaz Matsui, 2B
3. Matt Holliday, LF
4. Todd Helton, 1B
5. Garrett Atkins, 3B
6. Brad Hawpe, RF
7. Troy Tulowitzki, SS
8. Yorvit Torrealba, C
9. Ryan Spilborghs, DH
SP - Jeff Francis
Red Sox
1. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
2. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Manny Ramirez, LF
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. Jason Varitek, C
7. J.D. Drew, RF
8. Julio Lugo, SS
9. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
SP - Josh Beckett
Rockies
1. Willy Taveras, CF
2. Kaz Matsui, 2B
3. Matt Holliday, LF
4. Todd Helton, 1B
5. Garrett Atkins, 3B
6. Brad Hawpe, RF
7. Troy Tulowitzki, SS
8. Yorvit Torrealba, C
9. Ryan Spilborghs, DH
SP - Jeff Francis
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:38 PM
The lineups are out for Game 1 of the World Series...
Red Sox
1. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
2. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Manny Ramirez, LF
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. Jason Varitek, C
7. J.D. Drew, RF
8. Julio Lugo, SS
9. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
SP - Josh Beckett
Rockies
1. Willy Taveras, CF
2. Kaz Matsui, 2B
3. Matt Holliday, LF
4. Todd Helton, 1B
5. Garrett Atkins, 3B
6. Brad Hawpe, RF
7. Troy Tulowitzki, SS
8. Yorvit Torrealba, C
9. Ryan Spilborghs, DH
SP - Jeff Francis
Interesting choice to switch JD and 'Tek even though Drew is playing very well. Also switching Lugo and Ellsbury is odd. Lugo's overall suck shouldn't ever move out of the 9 hole.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:39 PM
Jose does not need liquid courage, not tonight. He has Josh Beckett on the mound, and that is courage enough for anyone.
Yes it is. However, I know I am going to be thirsty, so I will supplement Beckett on the mound courage with some slaking liquid courage.
(I'm hoping for another green cover this year, Jose.)
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:39 PM
three years ago yesterday i was run over by a car on my way to securing a voodoo doll of a cardinals player. If that ain't I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery...i'm not sure what is. Since i'm still sufering, i am hoping it is going to carry over.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:42 PM
If the Rockies keep rolling and win...
No chance. MLB will be forced to envoke a new "Mercy Rule" after the brutal beatings in Games 1 and 2 for the poor Rocks' sake and the Sox will win the series in 3!
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:47 PM
Interesting choice to switch JD and 'Tek even though Drew is playing very well. Also switching Lugo and Ellsbury is odd. Lugo's overall suck shouldn't ever move out of the 9 hole.
The Drew-Tek and Ebury-Lugo switches are simply responses to the lefty deliveries of Francis. I predict that Lugo will be a pesky out.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:53 PM
I realize that but the lineup is working well the way it is. Varitek shouldn't move up to 6th even though he will be batting right handed. If this is all we have to worry about, life is good.The Drew-Tek and Ebury-Lugo switches are simply responses to the lefty deliveries of Francis. I predict that Lugo will be a pesky out.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:56 PM
Basil King: Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
Henry David Thoreau: We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Dennis Waitley: The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Sox Can And Will Win!
Henry David Thoreau: We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Dennis Waitley: The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Sox Can And Will Win!
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:57 PM
2004 indeed makes tonight and this whole post-season slightly less urgent.
That said, now that we're here, they might as well win this damn thing. A lot of MFY and other non-Sox fans said that 04 was aberrational and the Sox would soon join the list of the many teams that won a title once and then faded back to the background. Bully for Theo and the rest of the Sox FO, coaches, staff and, of course, players; they now have the chance to reveal all that talk for the sour grapes driven cynicism that it was. What a great position to be in.
With Becks and Schill going in these games at home, the only thing that can stop the Sox is the damn weather.
Last, I can't wait to see Yaz.
That said, now that we're here, they might as well win this damn thing. A lot of MFY and other non-Sox fans said that 04 was aberrational and the Sox would soon join the list of the many teams that won a title once and then faded back to the background. Bully for Theo and the rest of the Sox FO, coaches, staff and, of course, players; they now have the chance to reveal all that talk for the sour grapes driven cynicism that it was. What a great position to be in.
With Becks and Schill going in these games at home, the only thing that can stop the Sox is the damn weather.
Last, I can't wait to see Yaz.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:58 PM
I'm feeling too good about this game and this series. Someone bring me back to Earth.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 04:01 PM
I'm feeling too good about this game and this series. Someone bring me back to Earth.
This statement alone should be enough to bring you back to Earth.
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foulkiavelli
Posted 24 October 2007 - 04:06 PM
Alex Cora was seen giving Dustin Pedroia advice on his swing earlier today....I'm feeling too good about this game and this series. Someone bring me back to Earth.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 04:10 PM
The rest of SoSH looks down their noses at us.
Just as I requested in 2004... win it for us game thread wackos.
Just as I requested in 2004... win it for us game thread wackos.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 04:20 PM
This is sooo exciting.
After going 3-0 in the era of pink gamethreadery, it's got to be time for more PINK I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery -
And some NSFW special pink I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery too.
PINK people say GO RED SOX!!!
After going 3-0 in the era of pink gamethreadery, it's got to be time for more PINK I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery -
And some NSFW special pink I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery too.
PINK people say GO RED SOX!!!
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reasons within Reason
Posted 24 October 2007 - 04:21 PM
I'd like to remind everyone that . .
There is only ONE country!
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This is OUR October!
There is only ONE country!
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This is OUR October!
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 04:25 PM
Days like today are why 2004 was so important. I no longer worry about dying without having seen the Sox win it all at least once. I've seen it, I bought the DVD and it'll live forever. Here they are in another World Series, and I'm going to enjoy watching it a lot more than I did in 2004. If the Rockies keep rolling and win, I'll be disappointed but not devastated. For the next week, I'm just going to enjoy watching my favorite team play another really good team for the championship of Major League Baseball. I'll cheer every clutch hit, defensive gem and 1-2-3 inning the Sox achieve. But I won't feel a single pang of fear every time someone makes an error, or the bullpen puts the tying run on first base with a four pitch walk.
The Red Sox won it all in 2004, and no matter what happens over the next seven games the 2007 Red Sox have had a great season full of terrific moments. The collective psyche of the nation no longer requires that they win.
It would just be really, really great if they do.
My sentiments exactly.
WIN!!
